A25291:353
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The Providence of God is either immediate, whereby God by himself, as the absolute sole cause provides for things, or mediate, whereby he provides by the use of means.
3. The Providence of God is either immediate, whereby God by himselfe, as the absolute sole cause provides for things, or mediate, whereby he provides by the use of meanes.
4. God doth all things that come to pass immediately, both by reason of his power, in respect of all being, which is found in the effect, (for the power of God attains to every effect. Deut. 8. 3. Isaiah 28. 26.) and also by reason of the subject in respect of that being it hath as it is a being: for God himself who is always and every where present immediately and inwardly, doth work that in all things also.
4. God doth all things that come to passe immediatly, both by reason of his power, in respect of all being, which is found in the effect, (for the power of God attaines to every effect. Deut. 8. 3. Esay 28. 26.) and also by reason of the subject in respect of that being it hath as it is a being: for God himselfe who is alwayes and every where present immediatly and inwardly, doth worke that in all things also.
5. Yet in respect of those things upon which second causes have their influence by force of their own proper form, God is not said to work, immediately, but ⟨p. 46⟩